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Soil health and dairy farming in the UK
Although healthy soil means more nutritious dairy products, modern intensive farming methods pollute and degrade the environment. However, a regenerative agriculture movement is kicking back against mainstream industrial farming.
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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard
Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.
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Farmland
Fruit and vegetables link our hungry bodies to the world of plants. Yet many of us have little understanding of the farming industry and the impact that bringing crops to our plates has on the planet.
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Bringing biotech to the people
Amateur scientists have inspired all kinds of frightening scenarios, from Frankenstein’s monster to ‘The Fly’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. But it can be a force for good. Today’s DIYbio enthusiasts are having fun – and even making lucrative breakthrough discoveries.
Catalogue
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Report of the Joint FAO/WHO technical meeting on methods of planning and evaluation in applied nutrition programs : Rome, Italy, 11-16 January 1965.
Date: 1966- Books
Methods for the detection of the viruses of certain diseases in animals and animal products / [Agricultural Research Council of the UK].
Agricultural Research Council (Great Britain)Date: [1976]- Books
The insects attacking stored wheat in the Punjab, and the methods of combat[sic]ing them : including a chapter on the chemistry of respiration / by J.H. Barnes and A.J. Grove.
Barnes, J. H.Date: 1916- Books
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Agriculture delineated: or, the farmer's complete guide; being a treatise on lands in general: shewing the best methods of cultivating and improving the different soils, for the raising of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Pease, Beans, Vetches, Lentils, Turnips, &c. &c. Also, Remarks ON The Management Of Natural And Artificial Grasses, and Directions for plowing, sowing, manuring, &c. according to the New and Old Husbandry. With comparisons made from Experimental Observations. By Gustavus Harrison, Esq. The Whole methodized in a plain and familiar Stile, for the Use of the Country Gentleman and Farmer.
Harrison, Gustavus.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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The extensive practice of the new husbandry, exemplified on different sorts of land, for a course of years; in which the various methods of ploughing, hoeing, harrowing, and Manureing; and every other Process in Agriculture, Recommended by Mr. Tull, Sir Digby Legard, Mr. Duff, Mr. Randall, of York; Arthur Young, Esq; and the Complete Farmer, Etc. are considered and examined. To which is added an appendix, Containing Particular Directions for Practising Husbandry in the Best Manner, and Where the Drill-Plough May be had that is Used in it. The second edition. By Mr. Forbes.
Forbes, Francis, active 18th century.Date: [1786]